Cigarette snuffer



April 30, 1957 DE ROY SIMPSQN 2,790,447

CIGARETTE SNUFFER Filed Oct. 27, 19s:

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United States Patent CIGARETTE SNUFFER De Roy Simpson, Tulelake, Calif.

Application October 27, 1953, Serial No. 388,536

1 Claim. (Cl. 131-235) This invention relates to a cigarette snuffer and particularly to a device in which a cigarette may be readily inserted to be smothered by the lack of oxygen in the snufier and from which the extinguished cigarette may be readily released by simply depressing a resilient element.

Cigarette and cigar smokers have long sufiered from the inconveniences of various of types of ash trays or cigarette snuifers and heretofore it has been necessary to stuff the cigar or cigarette into a conical aperture or to rub the tip of the cigarette or cigar against some surface in order to remove the fire therefrom. Otherwise, there was danger of the smoldering cigarette or cigar consuming itself and possibly communicating the fire to some nearby object. The present invention provides a convenient snufier having a tapering concave aperture with a resilient member closing one side thereof so that a cigar or cigarette may be readily pushed into the aperture and extinguished by lack of oxygen after which the resilient member may be depressed to remove the cigar or cigarette stub from the snutfer.

In a construction according to the present invention, a strip like body is provided having a longitudinal tapered concavity adjacent one end thereof and a resilient side member is connected to the body to close the concavity. The side member may be readily depressed or flexed to open the concavity so that the material in the concavity may be dropped therefrom.

Accordingly an object of the invention is to provide an improved cigarette snuffer.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a cigarette snuflEer from which a cigarette stub may be readily removed.

Other objects and many of the attendant advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the cigarette snuifer according to the invention;

Figure 2 is a vertical section taken substantially on the plane indicated by section line 22 of Figure 1 and showing the construction of the snufier; and

Figure 3 is a perspective view showing the snufier applied to a conventional ash tray.

In the exemplary embodiment according to the invention a substantially rigid body herein shown as a section of strip steel or other such material is provided with a struck out portion 12 which provides a tapering concavity 14. A resilient metal strip 16 is connected to the body 10 by any suitable means herein indicated as spot welding 18. The strip 16 extends longitudinally over the concavity 14 and is resiliently urged into proximity thereby and preferably the strip 16 is provided 2,790,447 Patented Apr. 30, 1957 with a slight concavity adapted to receive the lit end of a cigarette and to properly rigidity the resilient strip. The end 22 of the strip 16 extends longitudinally beyond the body 10 so that the end of the strip may be readily contacted by the finger of the user to depress the strip 16 and release a cigar butt 24 therefrom.

A support for the body 10 may be readily formed by shaping the strip 10 as shown at 30 to provide an angulated member which may be readily drilled or attached to any suitable surface Further, the device may be again bent to provide an extension 32 such as shown in Figure 3 to be used to clamp the device onto a conventional ash tray 34.

When the device is utilized on the instrument panel of an automobile or other vehicle, after removal of the extension 32 and suitable bending of the portions 10 and 30, it may be conveniently mounted in a vertical or side ways position so that the cigarette stub 24 may be more readily dropped therefrom. Obviously, it may be horizontal-1y mounted directly above the conventional sliding ash tray of a vehicle so that the stub may be readily dropped therein after it has been extinguished, when the drawer is open.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made in the construction and arrangement of the parts thereof without departing from the true spirit and scope of the invention.

What is claimed as new is as follows:

A cigarette snufier adapted to be positioned on an ash tray that has an ash receiving recess, said snufier comprising a generally U-shaped, substantially rigid member having upper and lower horizontal strips together with a vertical end strip connected to the outer ends of said strips, said U-shaped member being adapted to fit over a side of the ash tray with said lower strip therebelow and said upper strip extending above the ash tray and terminating over said ash receiving recess, said upper strip having a longitudinal upwardly struck out portion which forms the upper portion of a cigarette receiving concavity having an opening directed inwardly of the tray that tapers in width and in length and a comparatively resilient strip superposed beneath said upper strip and located above the recess in the ash tray, said resilient strip having a concavity which opens toward the concavity of said upper strip and which coacts therewith to provide the lower portion of said cigarette receiving concavity and the terminal part of said resilient strip extending beyond the inner end of said upper strip to form a finger receiving portion with which to flex said resilient strip downwardly to spill the contents of said pocket into the recess in the ash tray.

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